Your vote and Charles Koch's vote count for the same amount. Make your voice heard.

EDITOR: Ever since the Supreme Court saddled us with the 2010 Citizens United and the 2013 McCutcheon decisions, our democracy has been under constant attack from unlimited corporate money.

These rulings declared that corporations have the same rights as actual people and that money is speech. So a few billionaires have way more speech than you or I, and they have been speaking very loudly in the past few elections. Our airwaves are inundated with countless ads for their preferred candidates and against their opponents. Most are so-called "issue ads," but it is obvious who the ads are really about. And they don't even have to tell us who is paying for these ads, and they don't even have to tell their stockholders. They already own our economy — now they want to own our government too.

The corporate plan for buying our government depends on being able to purchase their personal elected officials. In order to do this, they need to marginalize your vote. The fewer people that vote, the more likely they can elect candidates who will do their bidding. Don't let them steal your vote. Many men and women have died to keep America free so you can exercise your right to vote. Ignore the mind-numbing barrage of attack ads, research the candidates and their actual positions and go to the polls on Tuesday and vote.

Charles Koch only has one vote, but so do you. Karl Rove only has one vote, but so do I. Until the day comes when a constitutional amendment overturns these misguided Supreme Court decisions, our votes are the only things that preserve our democracy and prevent it from being sold to the obscenely rich.